Monday, December 2, 2013

The recent issue of Frame magazine shows a clever vase designed by Maria Jeglinska. The design is really an anti-gravity device: a simple water container surrounded by an elegant open-work enclosure. Jeglinska transforms the tricky physics of flower arranging into a straightforward exercise of placing stems into a jar.

It would be trivial to copy this idea by crumpling a length of poultry netting around any water container.

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Five generations' keeping house in Western Washington know how to get the job done. Deft Home is the fruit of thirty years’ independent research with casual scholarship, deep-time experience, and no ties to commerce.
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